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156.802 Office of Career and Technical Education -- Kentucky Board of
Education.
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The Office of Career and Technical Education is hereby created within the
Department of Education. The office shall consist of those administrative
bodies and employees provided by or appointed by the commissioner of
education pursuant to KRS 156.010.
The commissioner of education may appoint an assistant, pursuant to KRS
156.010, and delegate authority to the assistant regarding the Office of Career
and Technical Education.
The Department of Education shall have the responsibility for all administrative
functions of the state in relation to the management, control, and operation of
state-operated secondary area vocational education and technology centers.
When appropriate, the Department of Education shall provide education
training programs through contracts with private business and industries.
These programs may be on a shared cost basis or on a total cost recovery
basis.
The commissioner of education shall have the authority to enter into
agreements or contracts with other government or education agencies,
including local school districts, in order to carry out services under the office's
jurisdiction.
(a) Secondary area vocational education and technology centers shall be
operated in compliance with program standards established by the
Kentucky Board of Education. Principals, counselors, and teaching staff
shall meet the qualifications and certification standards for all secondary
vocational personnel as established by the Educational Professional
Standards Board.
(b) The Kentucky Board of Education shall be the eligible agency solely
designated for the purpose of developing and approving state plans
required by state or federal laws and regulations as prerequisites to
receiving federal funds for vocational-technical or technology education.
The Kentucky Board of Education shall involve representatives from all
eligible recipient categories in the development of the required plans.
(c) In accordance with 20 U.S.C. sec. 2302(12), the Kentucky Board of
Education is hereby designated to be the "eligible agency" that is the sole
state agency responsible for the administration of vocational and technical
education and the supervision of the administration of vocational and
technical education.
(a) Except for the duties that the Kentucky Board of Education must retain
pursuant to 20 U.S.C. sec. 2341, the Kentucky Board of Education shall
be authorized to delegate all of the other duties and responsibilities of the
eligible agency to the Office of Career and Technical Education within the
Department of Education, including but not limited to the administration,
operation, and supervision of the Perkins program and the authority to
receive, hold, and disburse funds awarded under the state plan.
(b) The Kentucky Board of Education shall delegate to the Kentucky
Workforce Investment Board the state leadership activities referred to in
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20 U.S.C. sec. 2344 to be conducted in accordance with the required and
permissible uses of funds specified in the Carl D. Perkins Career and
Technical Education Act of 2006 and subsequent amendments thereto.
The maximum amount of funds allowed by 20 U.S.C. sec. 2322(a)(2)
shall be reserved and made available for state leadership activities.
The commissioner of education shall be permitted to enter into memorandums
of agreement with individuals on a year-to-year basis to fill positions in
hard-to-find teaching specialties. The agreements and compensation for
hard-to-find teaching specialties shall be approved by the commissioner of
education and shall not be subject to the provisions of KRS Chapter 45A. All
agreements shall be filed with the secretary of the Finance and Administration
Cabinet.
The commissioner of education shall, from time to time, prepare or cause to be
prepared any bulletins, programs, outlines of courses, placards, and courses of
study deemed useful in the promotion of the interests of technical and
vocational education.
Effective:June 25, 2013
History: Repealed, reenacted, renumbered, and amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 59,
sec. 3, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 14,
effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 1, effective
July 12, 2006; and ch. 211, sec. 22, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2003
Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 7, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 1997 (1st Extra.
Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 44, effective May 30, 1997. -- Amended 1996 Ky.
Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 469,
sec. 7, effective July 15, 1994. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 470, sec. 2,
effective July 1, 1990.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). This section was amended
by 2006 Ky. Acts chs. 151 and 211. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they
have been codified together. Where a conflict exists, Acts ch. 211, which was
last enacted by the General Assembly, prevails under KRS 446.250.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 211,
sec. 171, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to
agencies and officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it
confirms the reorganization of the executive branch and establishment of the
Education Cabinet. Such a correction has been made in this section.
Formerly codified as KRS 151B.025.
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